Andy Stern Delivers Philly Payback to Billionaire Sugar Daddy

Readers may recall that in 2007, Stern cut a secret deal with Perelman that caused SEIU to pull the plug on its effort to unionize thousands
of Philadelphia security guards employed by AlliedBarton, one of Perelman’s
many companies.

According to this article, “The D.C.-based SEIU split town without warning, leaving
openly pro-union workers to face management's wrath.”

Following SEIU's sudden departure, the security guards decided to
join an independent union called the Philadelphia Security Officers Union
(PSOU). Hundreds of guards at the University of Pennsylvania are now awaiting an
NLRB election, scheduled for April 11th, so they can join PSOU.

And here’s where our story gets interesting. It turns out that AlliedBarton
is terrified about the prospect of negotiating with a real union. That's why the company’s executives
phoned their favorite company union, SEIU, for help.

What happened next? AlliedBarton's executives handed over all of the guards’ personal contact info to SEIU and announced that AlliedBarton would be “neutral” towards SEIU… but not towards PSOU. One newspaper put it this way:

A March 17 letter from AlliedBarton vice president Jim Gorman sent to Penn guards
declared neutrality — not to PSOU, but to SEIU organizing efforts. It pledged,
"if a majority of AlliedBarton security officers in Philadelphia choose to
authorize SEIU to represent them, we will ... recognize the SEIU as the union
representative."

That
has drawn the ire of PSOU backers in the Penn security force, many of whom are
still bitter from SEIU's last organizing drive in Philly.

Why would AlliedBarton Security
Services, the Conshohocken-based security guard company, give the names,
addresses and phone numbers of its Philadelphia employees to the Service
Employees International Union, SEIU Local 32BJ?

That's a question that the Philadelphia
Securities Officers Union posed to David Chapla, director of labor relations…. "Our
lawyer asked if we could have a similar courtesy," said Fabricio
Rodriguez, who serves as the union's administrator. So far, he said, the company has declined to
reply.

SEIU, armed with the company’s lists of employees, has been visiting the guards' homes. And if it’s
anything like what has happened in California, AlliedBarton’s supervisors are
inviting purple-shirted SEIU organizers to attend company-run employee
meetings to campaign for SEIU.

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